IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
ARTIFACTS AS ART WHAT IS AN EFFIGY POT? COMPARISON AND CONTRAST THE SPIRO MOUND GROUP THE BLUFF SHELTERS A CARNEGIE GRANT & COB CAVE OTHER BLUFF SHELTER SITES SALVAGE ARCHEOLOGY ARTIFACTS FROM OTHER SITES
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Dellinger with a fiber “cradle” from the Buzzards’ Roost bluff shelter
University Museum Collections, University of Arkansas The Bluff Shelters
Dellinger’s attention probably was drawn to the bluff shelters due to several factors. Among these undoubtedly was the excavations conducted by his geology colleague Carey Croneis at caves in Madison and Newton counties while Dellinger was completing his graduate studies at Columbia University. Less than a year later, the Oklahoma Historical Society sponsored excavations at bluff shelters in caves in Boone County, much to Dellinger’s displeasure. By Dellinger’s own account, he became interested in the “Ozark Bluff Dwellers” while pursuing his graduate studies at Columbia University in New York City, perhaps during his leave of absence during the 1924-25 academic year. It seems likely that during this time he viewed some of the bluff shelter artifacts excavated a few years earlier by Mark Harrington of the New York-based Heye Foundation.
The majority of the shelters excavated under Dellinger’s general supervision are located along the main branch of the upper White River. Others are located on the Kings River, Buffalo River, and other tributaries of the White, and a few were excavated on small tributaries of the Arkansas River in the southwestern portion of the Arkansas Ozarks. Next > A Carnegie Grant & Cob Cave
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